Artillery

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I have been thinking about howitzers. Sweden has the "new" archer howitzer. It seems to be a decent howitzer and it can fire and regroup pretty fast. But, I have a problem with it. The Archer has wheels and not tracks and I am thinking it might be too dependent on roads. The Swedes want to sell it to other countries armed forces, but will it work in a desert when it is more dependent on roads? The northern part of Sweden gets a lot of snow and have quite few roads. Northern Sweden also have a lot of swamps and that can be a problem as well.

Is it better to have a howitzer on tracks instead of wheels? Yes, the wheel based vehicle can move much faster than a tracked vehicle, but the tracked vehicle can negotiate the terrain better than the one with wheels.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8x8ITwd4Vg
 
I have been thinking about howitzers. Sweden has the "new" archer howitzer. It seems to be a decent howitzer and it can fire and regroup pretty fast. But, I have a problem with it. The Archer has wheels and not tracks and I am thinking it might be too dependent on roads. The Swedes want to sell it to other countries armed forces, but will it work in a desert when it is more dependent on roads? The northern part of Sweden gets a lot of snow and have quite few roads. Northern Sweden also have a lot of swamps and that can be a problem as well.

Is it better to have a howitzer on tracks instead of wheels? Yes, the wheel based vehicle can move much faster than a tracked vehicle, but the tracked vehicle can negotiate the terrain better than the one with wheels.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8x8ITwd4Vg

In terms of maintenance wheeled vehicles are far easier to maintain and are much easier on crews than tracks as for its ability off road I am not sure it matters given that it has a range of 10-60km depending on the ordinance being used.

On the whole I like it especially it's rate of fire.
 
I have been thinking about howitzers. Sweden has the "new" archer howitzer. It seems to be a decent howitzer and it can fire and regroup pretty fast. But, I have a problem with it. The Archer has wheels and not tracks and I am thinking it might be too dependent on roads. The Swedes want to sell it to other countries armed forces, but will it work in a desert when it is more dependent on roads? The northern part of Sweden gets a lot of snow and have quite few roads. Northern Sweden also have a lot of swamps and that can be a problem as well.

Is it better to have a howitzer on tracks instead of wheels? Yes, the wheel based vehicle can move much faster than a tracked vehicle, but the tracked vehicle can negotiate the terrain better than the one with wheels.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8x8ITwd4Vg

This is similar to the South African G5 and G6 155mm. I knew a chap who drove one during his national service, he said it was a good bit of kit.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_9fl7QWGQw&t=121s
 
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That looks like a decent howitzer, Brit. It is good we are giving the artillery better howitzers so they can hit what they aren't supposed to hit with a greater efficiency. (joking)
 
That looks like a decent howitzer, Brit. It is good we are giving the artillery better howitzers so they can hit what they aren't supposed to hit with a greater efficiency. (joking)

We called them long range snipers:mrgreen:

I could never join the Artillery, they'd keep waking me up while I was having a little snooze in the back of the gun tractor.:sleep:
 
We called them long range snipers:mrgreen:

I could never join the Artillery, they'd keep waking me up while I was having a little snooze in the back of the gun tractor.:sleep:

I was on an exercise with the artillery and the artillery group counted wrong so the salvo of five 155mm shells hit too close to us. I don't trust the artillery boys since that day
 
I was on an exercise with the artillery and the artillery group counted wrong so the salvo of five 155mm shells hit too close to us. I don't trust the artillery boys since that day

I think I'd need a change of underwear.

Thankfully I've never been on an exercise with live fire 105 or 155, I did however bring up ammunition for them on my section of trucks. Thats as close as I've got to big guns.
 
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